greyboxer
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- Prud'homme,SK
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 1993 XLT
Hello everyone and thanks to all for invaluable insight and advice. In recent months I've run into several problems and always seem to find an answer somewhere on here.
Lately I've had 2 issues that seem to be related and I haven't been able to chase them out. 1-The truck never starts on the first hit of the ignition. I turn the key to Start let it turn over for a second or two, release, then hit it again and the truck will fire as soon as I hit the key. But it always takes two shots.
2- About 3-4 times in the last couple of months when hitting it the second time, the vacuum tree/octopus (whatever you want to call it) has blow 2-4 vac lines clean off, and I mean just totally blown them away.
Why?
It's fine once it's running, except my idle is lower than it should be (it's an auto) it's at about 7000rpm idle in park/neutral and dips to 4000-4500rpm in gear w/brake. But it never loses a vacuum while running, only at start.
Tomorrow I'm changing the oil from my winter 5-30 to summer 10-30, I'm trying synthetic this time and running an engine flush first. Might this help or is it totally unrelated? Thanks in advance for any insight/advice. I'll quit rambling now.
Lately I've had 2 issues that seem to be related and I haven't been able to chase them out. 1-The truck never starts on the first hit of the ignition. I turn the key to Start let it turn over for a second or two, release, then hit it again and the truck will fire as soon as I hit the key. But it always takes two shots.
2- About 3-4 times in the last couple of months when hitting it the second time, the vacuum tree/octopus (whatever you want to call it) has blow 2-4 vac lines clean off, and I mean just totally blown them away.
Why?
It's fine once it's running, except my idle is lower than it should be (it's an auto) it's at about 7000rpm idle in park/neutral and dips to 4000-4500rpm in gear w/brake. But it never loses a vacuum while running, only at start.
Tomorrow I'm changing the oil from my winter 5-30 to summer 10-30, I'm trying synthetic this time and running an engine flush first. Might this help or is it totally unrelated? Thanks in advance for any insight/advice. I'll quit rambling now.